Amplify Matching Best Practices

Amplify Matching helps you quickly identify strong candidate matches for open jobs. The quality of your results depends largely on how you structure your matching workflows and the candidate pools you choose to match against. These best practices will help you get meaningful results from the start, build recruiter confidence, and refine your process.

Use Amplify Matching as Part of a Broader Matching Strategy

Amplify Matching is designed to complement your existing searching and matching methods, not replace them. Start by using it alongside your current processes, refine your candidate pools, and only adopt it as a primary method once you’re consistently satisfied with match quality.

Start Small and Iterate

Begin by matching against a small, high-quality pool of candidates. This helps you deliver accurate results and prevents recruiters from receiving excessive match notifications.

Recommended starter pools:

  • Recently engaged candidates such as those who completed a screening or applied for a job in the past few weeks.

  • Silver medalists, meaning candidates who were recently submitted or interviewed but not placed.

  • Candidates with recent meaningful activity, such as communication or new notes.

Focusing on engaged and active candidates builds trust, because notifications sent to recruiters are more likely to be relevant and actionable.

Prioritize Candidates with Recent Activity

Recent engagement is a strong indicator of interest and availability.

You can identify active candidates by using a custom “last interaction” date field updated through Bullhorn Automation each time a meaningful action occurs, such as:

  • A specific note type added

  • An email received

  • A logged phone call

This can help you build lists based on recent activity ranges to ensure you are matching against engaged candidates who are more likely to respond.

Don’t Overemphasize Screening Scores

If you match against a pool of screened candidates, consider deprioritizing the screening score itself. Screening scores are specific to the job they were taken for and are not always an indicator of future fit. The act of completing a screening at all demonstrates engagement and should be treated as a positive signal.

Maintain Strong Data Hygiene

Matching performance improves significantly when your candidate and job data is standardized and up to date. Consider using Bullhorn Automation for:

  • Title and skill normalization

  • Standardizing employment history

  • Cleaning inconsistent data

  • Reducing outdated information

Cleaner data ensures matches are more accurate and reduces irrelevant recommendations.

For ideas on ways to automate data cleanup and standardization, check out our Automation Data Hygiene Use Cases.

Create Tailored Automations for High-Volume or Repeatable Roles

If you support clients with repeat or ongoing job needs (such as light industrial or warehouse roles), it can be valuable to build targeted automations. These may focus on:

  • Specific past experience (for example, warehouse environments)

  • Candidate shift or schedule preferences

  • Pay rate requirements

  • Location and availability

Investing time to build these customized automations can significantly speed up matching and create ongoing value for recurring openings.

Summary

To sum it up, here is a simple checklist you can use to get the best results from Amplify Matching:

  • Use it as one part of your overall matching strategy

  • Start with small, engaged candidate pools

  • Prioritize recent activity

  • Maintain strong and standardized data

  • Build targeted automations for recurring roles